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' Fifty-five minutes ; a clinker, and going all the time a 

 ' splitter. Good six-mile point ; hounds must have gone 

 ' eight miles.' 



On November 9th they had some bad luck, for at 

 the end of a good day's sport Gillson jumped into a pond 

 and was a good deal hurt, whilst his horse was so badly 

 injured that it had to be destroyed. But sport was good 

 all along, and the early days of December brought plenty 

 of hard work for hounds and horses. They had a very 

 good gallop on the iith from a little covert below Spellow 

 Hill, the first twenty-six minutes being all over grass, 

 and at a first-rate pace. Then came rather a long check, 

 but they got on the line again, and eventually killed on 

 the river bank at Roecliffe. Then on the following Monday 

 they had a good hour and forty-five minutes from Folly 

 Wood, and though it was a ring it was a wide one, and 

 they finally marked their fox to ground in the main earths 

 in the covert in which they found, than which there can 

 scarcely be a more annoying circumstance for a huntsman. 

 The year went out well, and one of the concluding days 

 was notable for the way in which hounds hunted up to their 

 fox after scent had changed at the end of a fast burst : — 



' Monday, December 2gth. Blue Bridge. Found in Blue Bridge 

 ' Whin, and ran as if for Newton-on-Ouse, but lost after 

 ' crossing railway. Drew Dodholme Wood, but fox slipped 

 ' away, and did nothing with him. Found in New Parks, 

 ' and ran very fast twenty-four minutes straight to within a 

 ' couple of fields of Crayke Whin, where he turned short to 

 ' the right down wind, and we hunted slowly by Plainville 

 ' and through Moorlands to Skelton Spring. He came 

 ' away from there, leaving Shipton village on the left, and 

 ' ran into him between there and Launde Wood. One hour 

 ' fifty minutes. First twenty-four minutes we raced without 

 ' check, when fox turned down wind, and we only hunted 

 ' slowly. Gillson hunted hounds very patiently." 



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